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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Dale Baker who wrote (28941)9/21/2006 10:34:37 AM
From: JohnM  Read Replies (1) of 541245
 
I'm a bit surprised at your reaction to the Timothy Garten Ash piece. It's much more sympathetic to precisely the policy making level that you wish to speak for. Let's treat, he is saying, the issues not, at least first of all, at the level of "Muslims this and Muslims that" but at the level different identities--family, religion, ethnicity, national origin, etc. are played out. At the local level. The level at which official statements of non discrimination are daily contradicted in life (the French case, for instance)

Moreover, Ash is sympathetic to the dialogue between the abstractly formulated goal and the local, messily applied application as evidence by his lengthy treatments of who the central actors are in the two books under review.

Ash is not Chomsky nor Will nor Broder nor pick your name. His work has been far more concrete than the abstractions you present.

Here's a link to his Amazon materials.

amazon.com
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